Iran to tighten security along border with Pakistan

Iran has begun constructing 120 watch posts along its eastern border areas with Pakistan to enhance the security there, the Iranian police chief said on Sunday. Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam said the police are building the watch posts and a 120-km road in cooperation with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) to step up the security along the country's eastern borders. The move comes after recent attacks against Iranian border guards by the Sunni rebels. On Friday the IRGC announced that their forces will undertake the security of the 300-km border in the southeastern city of Saravan in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province. Last Sunday Jaish Al-Adl Sunni rebel group from Iran's Sistan- Baluchestan province said they killed one of the five Iranian border guards that they claimed to have taken as hostages in February.